tomorrow morning,
our people go to Boston in two hours instead of three, and, next
June, in one. This petty revolution in our country matters was
very odious to me when it began, but it is hard to resist the joy
of all one's neighbors, and I must be contented to be carted like
a chattel in the cars and be glad to see the forest fall. This
rushing on your journey is plainly a capital invention for our
spacious America, but it is more dignified and man-like to walk
barefoot.--But do you not see that we are getting to be
neighbors? a day from London to Liverpool; twelve or eleven to
Boston; and an hour to Concord; and you have owed me a visit
these ten years.

I mean to send with your January _Dial_ a copy of the number for
Sterling, as it contains a review of his tragedy and poems, by
Margaret Fuller. I have not yet seen the article, and the lady
affirms that it is very bad, as she was ill all the time she was
writing; but I hope and believe better. She, Margaret Fuller,
is an admirable person, whose writing gives feeble account of
her. But I was to say that I shall send this _Dial_ for J.S. to
your care, as I know not the way to the Isle of Wight.

Enclosed in this letter I send a bill of exchange for L32 8s. 2d.
payable by Baring & Co. It happens to represent an exact balance
on Munroe's books, and that slow mortal should have paid it
before. I have not yet got to Clark, I who am a slow mortal, but
have my eye fixed on him. Remember me and mine with kindest
salutations to your wife and brother.

Ever yours,
R.W. Emerson

LXXXIX. Carlyle to Emerson

Chelsea, 31 January, 1844

Dear Emerson, Some ten days ago came your Letter with a new Draft
of L32 and odd money in it: all safe; the Draft now gone into
the City to ripen into gold and silver, the Letter to be
acknowledged by some hasty response now and here. America, I say
to myself looking at these money drafts, is a strange place; the
highest comes out of it and the lowest! Sydney Smith is singing
dolefully about doleful American repudiation, "_dis_owning of the
soft impeachment"; and here on the other hand is an American
man, in virtue of whom America has become definable withal as a
place from which fall heavenly manna-showers upon certain men, at
certain seasons of history, when perhaps manna-showers were not
the unneedfulest things!--We will take the good and the evil,
here as elsewhere, and heartily bless Heaven.

But now